QUOTES from the book 11 MINUTES by paulo coelho
- when we meet someone & fall in love, we have a sense that the universe is on our side..and yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left.
- life moves very fast. it rushes ys from heaven to hell in a matter if seconds.
- my aim is to understand love. i know how alive i felt when i was in love & i know that everythinh i have now however interesting it might seem. doesn’t really excite me.
- if i must be faitful to someone or something then i have to first of all, to be faithful to myself. if im looking for true love, i first have to get the mediocre love out of my system.
- anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. & if nothing belongs to me, then there’s no point wasting my time looking after things that aren’t mine. its best to live as if today were the first (last) day of my life.
- i can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. it’s all a question of how i view my life.
- before i die, i want to fight for life. & if i can walk on my own, i can go wherever i like.
- the roller coaster is my life. life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump: it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering, it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself & to feel angry & dissatisfied when you don’t manage it.
- in the search of happiness we are all equal.
- i didn’t ask to be born, i’ve never found anyone to love me, i’ve always made the wrong decisions - now im letting life decide for me.
- im not a body with a soul; im a soul that has a visible part called the body. my soul didn’t say anything to me, didn’t criticize me or feel sorry for me, it merely watched me. I realized why this was happening; it’s been such a long time since i thought about love or anything called love. it seems to be running away from me, as if it wasn’t important anymore & i didn’t feel welcome. but if i don’t think about love, i will be nothing.
- i need to write about love. i need to think & think &, i need to write & write about love - otherwise, my soul won’t survive.
- men are very strange. they can beat you up, shout at you, threaten you & yet they’re scared to death of women really. Perhaps not the woman they married, but there’s always one woman who frightens them & forces them to submit to her caprices. even if it’s their own mother.
- all my life i thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. well that’s a lie; freedom only exists when love is present. the person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. & the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.
- in love no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings & cannot blame someone esle for what we feel. it hurts when i lost the man i fell in love with. now, through i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in th world without owning it.
- passion sends us signals that guides us through our lives & its up to us to interpret those signs.
- the great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves. we simply awaken it. but in order to do that, we need the other person. the universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
- profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. from that point onwards, they change, the man and the woman come into play, but what happens before the attraction the brought them together is impossible to explain. it is untouched desire in it’s purest state.
- really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
- everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift. some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, have to remember how to love without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relieve certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting threads behind each encounter.
- human beings weren’t made solely to go in search of wisdom but also to plought the land, wait for rain, plant the wheat, harvest the grain and made the bread.
- desire is not what you see but what you imagined.

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